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Battlefield: Hardline delayed to early 2015 (January - March), Visceral explains why
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StealthGoblin
Banned
Sony marketing is going to be everywhere in Q1 2015.
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A Serious Man
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Good. It was going to get buried this holiday season anyway.
KillerMan91
Member
If I would be EA I would push the date to the spring. Watch_Dogs showed what you can do without any AAA competition.
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Åesop
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lol.. I bet they are just pretending to "care". Game will be broken as always, they just want you to buy another EA product
That was 1 expansion and Hardline would fit in there also for BF4 because it felt as a weaker version of BF4 with some tweaks.
And well this yeah, i mean people where willing to pay 60 euro's for it pretty crazy when you think of it.
TheSpaceBetween
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Åesop;122336860 said:
Visceral's games have always been technically competent. DICE they are not.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner.
If this game was tracking to sell anywhere close to previous BF installments, EA would be rushing this shit out the door.
Leafhopper
Banned
No idea, and if it was pre-order numbers, I doubt pushing it back will improve them that much with the chunk of games that got pushed to Q1 2015 anyway. Then again I guess not a lot of them are shooters.
BrassDragon
Member
This seems consistent with EA's new vision on development, which they talked about last month.
CEO Andrew Wilson said they'd be more willing to delay and be more responsive to early feedback.
Still unsure about Hardline but I'll give them points for walking the talk.
CEO Andrew Wilson said they'd be more willing to delay and be more responsive to early feedback.
Still unsure about Hardline but I'll give them points for walking the talk.
So it can bomb and they can save a few bucks by canning the entire staff at Visceral.
More seriously, they want to recoup dev costs and the game will still sell at least okay because of the Battlefield name.
Woo-Fu
Banned
I don't think the game is broken, I think its appeal to most of the battlefield fanbase is approximately nil. I'm sure the pre-order numbers reflect this along with people who haven't forgotten the BF4 fiasco.
EA doesn't have a problem with shipping broken games that they know will sell millions anyhow. They probably do have a problem shipping a game that is currently "flop" status.
Visceral will work on adding more stuff to the game and EA will think up a new marketing campaign.
Noisepurge
Member
pretty much this, i have zero interest in getting a new BF as we're still playing (or trying to play) BF4.
I have pre-ordered and played every Battlefield title since Codename Eagle and Hardline is the first i don't care to play at all. We will see again in february what the game looks like and if im bored with BF4 already.
the problems with BF4 killed it bad for me aswell, i plan to enact "dirt Tactics" and wait to see if theres a BF4 Premium Edition then wait longer for black friday to nab it for 10-15 bucks.
they should have took parts of hardline and turned into Bad Company 3.
secondspace
Member
This looked too much like Battlefield to me. Something more cops and robbers might have worked, but it looks greedy to push out more Battlefield when a lot of people are questioning the value of BF4 and the Premium content.